Category: Bitcoin

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain launched two new Antminer 17 miners to the eager market on September 9, 2019. A day before the announcement, data from statistics and wallet provider Blockchain showed that the Bitcoin hash rate topped 94 EH/s to hit 100 EH/s. …

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? More importantly, does it really matter? | Source: Pixabay Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? The identity of the enigmatic person (or people) who created bitcoin remains as mysterious as Jack the Ripper. Pundits and experts all over the world have put forth their assertions as to who Satoshi truly is. It is …

Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto markets have been facing a period of consolidation after posting a decent sized rally earlier this week. Although this rally has stalled in recent times, it is important to note that BTC’s main level of resistance still exists at $10,800. One analyst, however, believes that an inability to validate a …

A U.K. Premier League football club (sorry, U.S. readers — the original football) will now be sporting the Bitcoin logo out on the pitch. Watford F.C., a professional football team from Watford, Hertfordshire, announced today, September 12, 2019, that it has added the Bitcoin logo to the left sleeves of its players’ uniforms. According to …

Ethereum has big plans to address scaling issues, a transition to Proof-of-Stake, and essentially upgrade to ETH 2.0. Meanwhile, the often-overlooked Ethereum Classic appears to have big plans of its own, like perhaps taking over from ETH 1.0. Some have even suggested that this was the plan from the start. From The Domain Of Ethereum …

The European Central Bank (ECB) has attacked plans for an Estonian state-operated cryptocurrency. ECB President, Mario Draghi shut down any talk of the proposal by saying about crypto assets: “No member state can introduce its own currency…The currency of the euro zone is the euro.” Many observers theorize that Draghi’s response is led by a …

When we hopped on a call last Friday, Russell Okung had just left his last practice of the week, but he couldn’t get away without his teammates blasting him over Bitcoin. “Every single day,” Okung laughed over the phone when I asked him how often they give him flack. Towering like a modern day Ajax …

Bitcoin price levels quickly bounced off the triangle support at $9,400 back up to just below $11,000 at the beginning of September. Since then BTC has formed a falling wedge and looks poised for another move up. Bitcoin Price 1-Hour Analysis On the 1 hour chart for XBT/USD, we can see the falling wedge that …

Although Bitcoin has had a stellar year thus far, 2019 has not been a strong year for the altcoin market. Only two out of the thousands of altcoins on the crypto market were able to outperform Bitcoin over the first half of the year. However, one of those top performers is in trouble of retracing …